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Now, Le Zhengling is divided into three parts, each owned by a different faction.
In the very beginning, in the world where Yue Zhengling's original body existed, Alaya had already made arrangements with someone, and the one staying there was the representative of [Dharma].
In the post-apocalyptic world, the part that Yue Zhengling abandoned—or rather, was robbed of—is surrounded by alien forces, and that Yue Zhengling's consciousness is in an electronic sea.
The most important one here was the one that was fiercely contested by the three parties, and Gaia was forced to snatch it in the end. This is why Gaia was several steps behind. As for the reason for sending Hei Ji in, it was to make Olga Marie, as the Star Priestess, sign a blood pact with Altrouge, so that Olga Marie could meet the conditions for the arrival of the planetary will.
But even Gaia herself did not expect that in the very beginning, everyone's plans would become unpredictable, because from the moment Yue Zhengling entered the Star Inner Sea and met Merlin, and Merlin's purest wish came true, Yue Zhengling's fate was not something that any being could interfere with.
Chapter 230: The Possibility of Listening (Part 2)
Altruchi walked to the front door of the house again. "It seems that this is the only way to break through. If I'm not mistaken, the core that fixes this space and the source of magic that maintains its existence are all inside. Hehe, I'm already starting to wonder what it's like inside."
She set her sights on cracking the seven locks on the door, but to her dismay, she was helpless against these magical locks because she couldn't figure out how they worked.
The Starry Sky Grand Magic is, after all, a secret technique of the Animusphia family. Even with her exceptional knowledge, Eltrauge couldn't find an efficient way to counter this technique, which wasn't known in the magic world.
Outputting magic of seven different attributes was not difficult for her, but using magic of seven attributes to unlock locks was a complete mystery. She had tried several times, but her magic was absorbed like a breached dam, and even some of her magic reserves as a top-level vampire were wasted. Moreover, she was isolated from most of the earth's (Gaia's) protection here, which slowed down her recovery speed. Already suffering from old injuries, she had been trying to conserve her magic, and this setback left her somewhat embarrassed and angry.
Olga Marie, inside the house, heard the noise from the front door and knew that Black Princess was trying to crack the lock. After a while, there was no sound outside, so it seemed that the other party could not succeed for the time being. Knowing this, she breathed a sigh of relief and tiptoed upstairs to the second floor.
"Although the door lock is blocking the vampire from the outside, and she doesn't seem to be launching a full-scale attack, what should we do next? After all, it would be fine if she left, but if she chooses to fight her way in, the defense mechanisms here won't be able to stop her."
Olga Marie pushed open the door with a troubled expression and walked to the bedside. As always, Le Zhengling was sleeping soundly. At this moment, Olga Marie was a little jealous of how peacefully he could sleep.
"Honestly, even though we're facing a major crisis, you're sleeping like a log. What am I supposed to do with you?" Olga Marie smiled as she leaned over the bed and gently poked Le Zhengling's face.
Even though it wasn't the right time to do this, she couldn't help but do it because only by doing so could she feel that this person belonged to her.
After those illusions appeared, she had a premonition that the Le Zhengling on her side and the Le Zhengling on the other side of the illusions might one day become the same person, and even the women who saw them would meet her. Her woman's intuition told her that at that time, she would no longer have the chance to possess this person alone—although it's not exactly possession now, she could still deceive herself for a while.
"No matter who the opponent is, I will not back down. I am your Master and you are my Servant. Let this false relationship last forever and ever, even death cannot separate us."
After saying these words, which sounded more like a curse than a vow, Olga Marie stood up somewhat melancholically and cast a levitation spell on Yue Zhengling. Just as she was about to leave the room, she turned around and met a pair of bright red eyes.
Olga Marie stared blankly at the girl opposite her, who was about the same height as her, and it took her a long time to realize what had happened.
Rewinding to three minutes earlier, Black Princess, having wasted the equivalent of four ordinary magicians' full magical power, had abandoned the normal way of opening the door and entered the house.
Her patience finally wore thin, and she calculated the amount of magic power needed to destroy the defenses of the building before her. Then she compressed it. As one of the twenty-seven ancestors who stood at the pinnacle of the Dead Apostles, she possessed immense magical power and was accustomed to crushing everything with her output.
"What an annoyance! It's made me waste so much time and magic. If what's inside disappoints me, then I'll destroy this place completely!" She pushed the compressed magic into a ball forward, and the red magic ball came into contact with the seven rings surrounding the house. The collision between the two did not produce any powerful destruction, but rather remained in a silent stalemate before finally being obliterated.
Half a minute later, looking at the seven rings that had completely disappeared, Hei Ji nodded in satisfaction and pushed open the door to enter.
"The setup is quite nice, but the important thing is—"
As soon as she opened the door, she sensed the presence of a living person inside. The person made no attempt to hide; in fact, it seemed as if they hadn't noticed her at all, remaining rooted to the spot. Moreover, the person's presence felt quite familiar to her.
"Someone related to Mother (Gaia)?" Altrucci frowned, following the scent up to the second floor, and finally arrived at an open door.
She looked through the door and saw a white-haired girl staring intently at another white-haired girl lying on the bed, saying some rather unpleasant things.
For a moment, she felt a little awkward and wanted to go back to the stairwell to check the time before coming back up. However, when she saw the person on the bed, she became somewhat lost in thought.
Her crimson eyes stared at the sleeping person before her, who appeared to be only thirteen or fourteen years old. The other person's appearance was perfect; if one did not look closely, Altruki would have thought she was seeing herself. As a high-level life form created by the planet, equivalent to an elf, she was a life form that could only be described as perfect.
Because of their striking resemblance in appearance, the other person was remarkably similar to her, with the same fair skin and long, silvery-white hair interspersed with black hair. If she didn't know that she only had one younger sister, she would probably have thought that the other person was her blood relative.
She thought that in this world, apart from her sister who was born as the True Ancestor, no one's appearance could be described as perfect, but she never expected to see one here today.
Although she could tell that the other person's body was artificially sculpted, it surpassed the limits of what humans could achieve, reaching the realm of "gods"—or rather, the realm of "stars."
Because she was so engrossed in watching, it was too late for Olga Marie to hide when she finally took action.
And so, Olga Marie and Altrudge stared at each other, wide-eyed.
Neither of them knew what to do for a moment.
When Olga Marie saw Altrucci standing before her, her first reaction was to attack her, but the aura emanating from Altrucci prevented her from doing so. It was an aura close to the crystallization of nature, that is, the aura of an elf. As the Star Priestess, her sense of touch with Gaia was infallible, and she could not mistake Gaia's presence through Altrucci.
More importantly, there was absolutely no hostility from the other party; there was only a hint of embarrassment and curiosity.
On the other hand, when Altruchi saw Olga Marie, she noticed her abnormality. The moment she saw her, she was certain that this being in human form was not human.
The strange feeling she was experiencing now was like the feeling she had when she first saw Mercury (Type: Mercury) in the forests of South America.
This awkward feeling made Altrouge look at Olga Marie with increasingly strange eyes. Finally, she couldn't help but ask, "Who are you, and what is your relationship with Mother?"
Olga Marie was confused by Eltruchi's question, but she still answered formally, "I don't know what you're talking about. Also, you've trespassed on private property. If there's nothing else, could you please leave immediately?"
Upon hearing this reply, Eltrauge narrowed her eyes slightly. "Trespassing on private property? There is no place on this earth that I cannot enter."
As she spoke, she took a step into the room, her gaze landing on the bed behind Olga Marie. Noticing her gaze, Olga Marie, terrified, stepped in front of her and shouted, "Stop! Or I won't be polite!"
"You're welcome? How can you be unreserved?" Eltrucci, like an innocent and pure child, put her hands behind her back, leaned forward to look at Olga Marie, and asked her with great curiosity.
Olga Marie was speechless for a moment.
"As the weaker one, you clearly can't do anything, yet you dare to speak arrogantly to me, the stronger one, only to end up having to submit to me in the end~ In that light, you're truly a strange person~"
A strange light, incomprehensible to others, flickered in Eltrauge's eyes, and a radiant smile, beyond her years, graced her lips. "You...are used to relying on others, aren't you?"
These words seemed to pierce Olga Marie's defenses, causing her to involuntarily take a step back.
"Oh dear, it seems I was right." Although she looks like a fourteen-year-old girl, if you really trace her back, the vampire named Altrudge Brunestard is actually over a thousand years old.
While living longer doesn't necessarily mean being stronger, there is one thing that has an advantage: the experience accumulated over time.
It was precisely because of this experience that Altruic was able to see through Olga Marie's personality traits from her earlier soliloquy.
Looking into the other person's blood-red eyes and familiar smile, Olga Marie felt a deep sense of dread towards this stranger who had finally revealed his true colors.
I remember when the malignant Yue Zhengling was born, he looked exactly the same. Both his expression and demeanor were exactly the same.
—As expected, the opponent was not a harmless elf, but a bloodthirsty monster.
Having realized this reality, Olga Marie was about to unleash her trump card: a magic trick set up in the room as a precaution, intended to kill herself and Yue Zhengling together.
Of course, this time she didn't want to die together with him. The magic that was injected with the young master's magic was different in terms of destructive power. And now, it was time for this magic to work!
Olga Marie's change in expression did not escape Eltruchi's notice. Eltruchi smiled calmly and said, "What, are you so angry that you want to attack me?"
But just as Olga Marie was casting her spell and Altrud's lips curled into a playful smile, an aura that was extremely familiar to both of them suddenly descended, causing them to stop all their movements.
Five minutes later, Olga Marie and Altrudge looked at each other again.
"So the Mother you're talking about is Gaia." Olga Marie looked at Eltruchi with an unfriendly expression. If the other party had made everything clear earlier, she wouldn't have had to act so tensely just now.
Hearing Olga Marie's words, Altruki felt a little embarrassed, because at the beginning, her mother (Gaia) did ask her to wait outside, and just now, Gaia's will had explained the situation to the two of them, and it was indeed her fault.
Of course, Eltruch didn't show anything on her face; she still had that smiling look on her face.
"Alright, Your Highness, please complete the contract and leave here quickly!" Although Olga Marie already knew Black Princess's identity, she showed no respect whatsoever. After all, the other party was a vampire, an enemy of humanity. As a magician, it was already a great favor of her not to start a fight upon meeting her.
"Heh, there's no rush. Can you tell me who this person lying on the bed is?" Altruchi knew perfectly well why the other party was acting this way. On one hand, it was due to the difference in their identities and positions, and on the other hand, it was because she had ultimately made a mistake this time.
She even overheard Olga Marie's private conversations, so it's no wonder the other party didn't give her a friendly look.
"Sorry, no! This person has nothing to do with you!" Olga Marie glared at her fiercely, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. "Let's change rooms for the blood pact ceremony; it's not convenient here."
Eltrauge's smile widened. The more she acted this way, the more she wanted to know. "No, I think this place is great, so let's get started."
Before the other party could object, Eltrauge cut her palm with her sharp nails, and bright red blood began to flow from the wound, along with a fragrant aroma.
Black Princess clenched her fist slightly, squeezing the wound to draw out more blood. Instead of flowing to the ground, the blood formed a wandering, bright red thread that wrapped around Olga Marie.
Knowing that the ritual had already begun, Olga Marie could only suppress the refusal she wanted to utter, and after taking a deep breath, she began to chant the contract incantation.
“I, Olga Marie Asmirette Animusfia, the Star Maiden, swear by the witness of the stars.”
On the other side, Black Princess's eyes gleamed with a mischievous look. She knew that once the ritual began, it could not be interrupted, so she recited the contract while ignoring Olga Marie's murderous gaze and walked towards Yue Zhengling.
"I, the ancient red, swear by the Crimson Moon."
Finally arriving at the bedside, Altrouge looked at Yue Zhengling in surprise. As a vampire, she had never sensed the overflowing life force emanating from this person until she got this close.
What's even stranger is that ordinary people might not be able to smell it, but as a vampire, she can smell the tempting, corrupting scent mixed in with these life forces.
Chapter 231 The Possibilities of Listening (Part 2)
"A smell I've never smelled before." Eltraqi sniffed and went to the bed. Looking at Le Zhengling's sleeping face, her eyes soon became a little dazed.
Le Zhengling's appearance possesses a bewitching charm, an ability entirely related to her master's will. In the past, Le Zhengling unconsciously suppressed the influence of her appearance, but in her current comatose state, this bewitching charm has completely spiraled out of control.
The Black Princess, who should have possessed extremely powerful magic resistance, wouldn't have fallen for the spell so easily. However, the body of the current Yue Zhengling is the most perfect work of art, crafted with the finest Einzbern techniques, and it's also mixed with the Holy Grail's black mud. The alluring fragrance and the scent emanating from the mixture of that blood and the desire to corrupt are the biggest reasons why the Black Princess was caught off guard.
Like a kitten drawn to catnip, Eltrauge couldn't resist getting closer to what was actually incredibly deadly to her.
"Wait! What do you want to do! Hey! Can you hear me!" Olga Marie looked at the dazed-looking Black Princess, and watched as she reached out and pushed Le Zhengling's face to the side, exposing his snow-white neck to the air.
"No! You can't do this!" Olga Marie's expression changed drastically. Of course, she knew what Eltruchi was planning to do, but no matter how much she shouted, the other party ignored her.
As she saw the other person reach out and stroke Yue Zhengling's neck, seemingly searching for something, Olga Marie closed her eyes and shouted with all her might, "That's my servant! Take your hands off him!"
This persistent voice finally reached Altrouge's ears. She turned her head slightly and looked at Olga Marie with a seemingly absent-minded expression. "It's so noisy, could you please be a little quieter?"
As she said this, Eltruch's crimson eyes glowed slightly, and the powerful suggestive magic made Olga Marie abruptly close her mouth.
The violent collision of her upper and lower jaws almost brought Olga Marie to tears. She knew it was due to the blood pact binding her, which was why the suggestion was so powerful.
However, none of that matters. What matters is that she is currently unable to break free from this bondage, feeling extremely anxious yet powerless. As the contractor, she cannot escape until this blood pact is completed.
What happened next was reflected clearly in Olga Marie's eyes, as if in slow motion. No matter how much she wanted to stop it or how much she didn't want it to happen, she could only watch helplessly.
Eltrauge licked the left side of Le Zhengling's neck back and forth, a gesture that seemed to be tasting the food before eating, but to Olga Marie, it was an indescribable lewdness.
This was not a meaningless action. Altrouge's action was actually to promote the relaxation of the muscles in that area of Le Zhengling's body, and the vampire's saliva had an anesthetic effect.
When Altruki felt it was about time, she looked with hazy eyes at the skin that she had licked until it was slightly red, then opened her mouth, revealing the sharp canines unique to vampires, and bit down on Yue Zhengling's carotid artery.
It was a taste I had never experienced before. The aroma was pure and sweet, but the flavor was a harmonious blend of sour, sweet, bitter, and spicy sensations. Strangely, none of the sensations felt jarring. It was very pleasant and enjoyable to drink, with a mellow aftertaste.
Eltrouget was intoxicated by the taste and unconsciously increased the intensity of her sucking. If the rate at which Yue Zhengling's blood was flowing out was a trickle, and Eltrouget was only tasting it slightly, then now it was an unrestrained and hearty drinking.
A normal adult has about 4.2-4.8 liters of blood, while a minor has even less. Yue Zhengling only had about 3 liters in his body. With Altrouge's unbridled blood-drinking, he quickly reached the point where he could no longer lose a lethal amount of blood.
Humans possess instinctive desires, and the will to survive is one of these instinctive desires. Whether it's a newborn baby or an elderly person nearing the end of their life, they will unconsciously want to hold onto something; this is a manifestation of the will to survive.
Although the evil of this world was devoured by Yue Zhengling, it does not mean that it has disappeared. On the contrary, it has merged with Yue Zhengling.
It represents desire and is a collection of instincts. At that time, Yue Zhengling, who was only a soul, lacked this desire. Coincidentally, his soul was still searching for the lost instinct (the id left in the body), which is why he was attracted to the evil of this world as a collection of instincts.
When Yue Zhengling was thrown into Yuanzang Mountain, there should have been only one outcome: to be devoured by the evil of this world. No, "devoured" is not the right word; it should be "assimilated."
A drop of ink falling into a pond will be diluted to the point that it can no longer be found, let alone the fact that Yue Zhengling's soul at that time was not ink, but rainwater.
However, chance leads everything into the unknown.
The Einzbern Summoning Spell, the awakening of the Winter Saintess Justessa, and the perfect body created by the simulation of Yiling's body, all contributed to the fleshly suffering of the evil of this world due to Alaya's superfluous actions.
Even more terrifying is that, in the struggle for absolute ownership between the consciousness within that body, Le Zhengling, who could be called the malignant id, and Le Zhengling, who had violently attacked himself because of this body, both perished together because of Olga Marie.
However, as mentioned before, humans have instinctive desires.
Whether it's the malignant self or the purest self, at the moment of death, one of them lets go to fulfill the other's wishes.
Yes, the reason why Yue Zhengling did not die is because the desire not to die in the malignant id was maximized. Knowing that there was no future at all, the desire followed the instinct and became dependent on the ego.
At that time, neither my ego nor my self was wrong in telling Olga Marie how to kill the other person, but that was only killing the "pure" other person.
The stubborn self refuses to give up, and the instinct of desire chooses to follow its heart.
Therefore, instincts were integrated into the self, and the severely damaged self fell into a deep sleep, causing Yue Zhengling's consciousness to remain in a coma. This is why Yue Zhengling did not die, but never woke up again.
However, for Yue Zhengling, the desires he now possesses are too enormous. Although they are not the total of six billion, this immense desire (instinct) is beyond the control of his small will (ego).
Therefore, when death approaches again, instinct once again takes control of the body, following the guidance of desire (the will to survive)—
Le Zhengling opened his eyes again.
Chapter 232 Blood Pact (Part 1)
Altrouge stared blankly at the azure sky, not knowing what had happened. Just moments ago, she seemed to be savoring something incredibly delicious, so why had things suddenly turned out like this?
She struggled to turn her head and saw a large hole in her chest, her heart gone. An ordinary person would die instantly from such an injury, but because she was an immortal vampire, she was still alive.
"Cough, cough cough," he sat up, leaning against the big tree behind him. His broken body was slowly regenerating itself, but because he lacked a heart that was equivalent to the core of a magic furnace, the regeneration speed was slower than before.
"A miscalculation—I didn't expect it to be such a monster." He forced his head up and looked in the direction he had flown off to.
The second floor of the wooden house, which seemed to have grown out of nowhere, had a large hole in it, right in front of her. Eltrauge knew that she had flown out of that hole.